Friday, September 7, 2012

7 Quick Takes Friday (Vol. 66)

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Our Eighth Anniversary Kevin and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary. Wow! We've never been
your typical couple, so of course our evening isn't likely to resemble that of
other married couples. Read more here...

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See where you rate. Last Sunday, Kevin was
helping Carl and Jess get the girls out of the car and into a side door for
Mass during a torrential downpour.Kevin
opened the van door, and Vivi greeted him with: “Hi Kevin! We're gonna see
Trisha!”

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This Nanny’s New Groove Speaking of anniversaries, this is my eighth
anniversary of being a nanny.One week
after Kevin and I got married, I began nannying for “my little guys,” and eight
years later I begin my new schedule nannying three days a week for three
adorable little girls (Vivi who’s 2.5 and her twin sisters Livia and Sophia who
are 3 mos. old) on our eighth wedding anniversary.I’ve helped take care of Vivi since she was a
baby, and now I get to love on her and her sisters.

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Haiti Rummage
SaleOn September 8, from 7:00 am -
12 noon, St. Michael Church will hold its annual rummage
sale to benefit the Haiti Ministry. Donations for the sale will be accepted
today Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

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Vocational discernment. This
week actually has one more anniversary of sorts: the first heart-to-heart with
our beloved brother John Baab over his vocational discernment took place three
years ago the Saturday of the Haiti Rummage sale.Where is he now?At St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland.God’s timing often isn’t our
timing, but it’s definitely the best timing!

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“What does God want of us?” Kevin and I have been doing some discernment of our own,
and I’ve done a four part series on our questions and prayers asking what the
Lord wants of us.To read it: click here.

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Oh my
goodness!This past Monday my youngest sister had as part of
her Facebook status update: “That awkward moment when you are on a peaceful bike ride
along the river and you pass a man wearing NOTHING but his sunglasses and his
tennis shoes. WHY?!?!” I had to laugh
because it made me think of a similar story our cousin had told us many years
ago about visiting the Berkeley campus and seeing two girls walking around holding
hands and wearing nothing but socks, and as she put it "they looked as if they’d never seen a
razor."At the time we heard this, my
sister was about six or seven, so it didn’t dawn on her that the two people in
the story were naked except for their footwear and neither of them had shaved.Later that afternoon when my young sister was retelling the story to
someone else, she got the part right about them only wearing socks, but then
she said, “and they looked like they’d never seen a raisin.”Then after a brief moment, she added, “But I
don’t know how she could tell.” :)

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